From the ground a city is always a fragment. From above the argument becomes legible: the grid or the tangle, the river that decided everything, the ring road drawn where a wall used to be.
Every city here pairs the aerial view with photographs, video and a written guide to how it grew, which districts differ and why, the landmarks worth the detour, and what to know before going.
3 Cities in Italy, each with aerial views, photos, videos and an in-depth guide.
Florence ( FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] (listen)) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,084 inhabitants in 2013, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Floren…
Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma [ˈroːma] (listen)) is the capital city and a special comune of Italy (named Comune di Roma Capitale) as well as the cap…
Venice (; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] (listen); Venetian: Venesia or Venexia [veˈnɛsja]) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Ven…